Advice for Obama: zip it

After you've given this speech, how can you 1) have your spokesman make this statement and 2) think he'll be taken seriously?

Whatever his motivations for weighing in on Gatesgate, Obama's comments earlier this week were a mistake,
practically speaking. And now the damage control are
making the situation worse, not better. Enough already!

UPDATE: When I heard Obama spoke with Crowley, I was ready to change my tune--until I read this synopsis at Boston.com:

President Obama said today that he spoke with Cambridge police officer
James Crowley, who had arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
last week. Obama said he was left with the impression that Crowley was
an outstanding police officer, but added that he believed both men
probably overreacted in the situation.